- 1. staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:27:48 -0600
- OK youse guys, So, my much documented troubles with freeze plugs on one of my recent race motors has caused me to ponder various solutions. Usually, a good machine shop will remove them for hot tanki
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00440.html (8,250 bytes)
- 2. Re: staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:40:30 -0600
- Yeah, I used them to get me thru the season...not what I call an "elegant" solution, but effective. I've got a bunch of them (after the initial problem) in my spare parts tub... /// unsubscribe/chang
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00442.html (8,165 bytes)
- 3. Re: staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:27:37 -0800
- Just an idea, but all of the Ford Boss 302 engines, the freeze plug holes are threaded, and the plugs are of a screw in type. Just remember once they are screwed in, they really aren't freeze plugs a
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00445.html (8,666 bytes)
- 4. Re: staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:12:15 -0600
- Actually, they never were "freeze" plugs. They are core plugs put there to close off the holes left after the factory shook out the sand when they cast the blocks. They won't keep ice from breaking y
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00448.html (7,753 bytes)
- 5. Re: staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:21:23 -0500
- Elegant or not, if the rubber plugs work - why not just use them and be done with it? Rick -- Original Message -- From "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson at thicko.com> /// unsubscribe/change addres
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00450.html (7,688 bytes)
- 6. staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:33:58 -0500
- the one piece strap across the soft plugs is not such a good idea. individual straps yes, one piece i think not. reason being that the block and the strap will have difrent expansion rates wich could
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00452.html (7,774 bytes)
- 7. RE: staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:32:35 -0600
- That shouldn't be much of a concern. They aren't really freeze plugs, just called that because they pop when your motor freezes. (Other parts of the block "pop" too, unfortunately). Those are more ac
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00517.html (8,502 bytes)
- 8. Re: staking the vampire (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:22:58 -0800
- These are really core plugs, not freeze plugs. The holes are left over from the cores that create the water passages in the sand casting process for the block . /// unsubscribe/change address request
- /html/spridgets/2003-01/msg00538.html (7,796 bytes)
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